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Biological Curator position at WormBase-CaltechEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Biological Curator position is now available at WormBase-Caltech. Please contact Paul Sternberg (pws@caltech.edu) for more information.
Source: WormBase - July 22, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: positions available Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS203Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS203 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - June 29, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS202Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS202 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - June 3, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

WormBase on FriendFeed and TwitterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Have a question about WormBase that you desperately need answered? Drop us a line in the WormBase Help Desk group on FriendFeed. Want to keep up on system status and new features? Follow us on Twitter. Or subscribe to one of our RSS feeds.
Source: WormBase - May 11, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

Paul Sternberg elected to the National Academy of SciencesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Paul Sternberg, principal investigator of WormBase, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations, Paul!
Source: WormBase - April 29, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: external announcements Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS201Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS201 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - April 22, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

WormBase changes curation procedureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase will ask authors to specify the types of data in their papers using a simple "author first-pass form" that will be e-mailed. Your timely participation in this effort will help prioritize your paper for curation.
Source: WormBase - April 22, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: new features Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS200Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WorBase has been updated to the WS200 release of the database. This will be 11th referential release of WormBase, available shortly at ws200.wormbase.org.
Source: WormBase - March 26, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

Whole genome sequencing for mutant identification workshopEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Oliver Hobert will be leading a workshop on whole genome sequencing for mutant identification at the IWM. Those interested in contributing to the workshop should contact Oliver at or38@columbia.edu.
Source: WormBase - February 25, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

New release of WormBase, WS199Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS199 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - February 25, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

Request for Workshop Proposals at IWMEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Are you interested in conducting a workshop at the International Worm Meeting this summer? Are there workshops that you would like to see held? Please contact Chris Li Chris Li (cli@sci.ccny.cuny.edu), David Greenstein (green959@umn.edu), or Paul Sternberg (pws@caltech.edu) with your ideas.
Source: WormBase - January 19, 2009 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: external announcements Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS197Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS197 release of the database [release notes].
Source: WormBase - December 23, 2008 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS195Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS195 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - October 25, 2008 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

Martin Chalfie wins Nobel Prize for GFP in C. elegansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Martin Chalfie (with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien) has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of GFP in C. elegans. This is the third Nobel Prize awarded for research on C. elegans in the last six years.
Source: WormBase - October 8, 2008 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

Award-winning C. elegans biologists.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (with David Baulcombe) have won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on small regulatory RNAs, while Susan Mango has won a MacArthur Fellowship for work on the genomics of organogenesis.
Source: WormBase - September 27, 2008 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS194Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS194 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - September 24, 2008 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

Draft Data Release plan for modENCODEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
NHGRI has updated the data release plan [DOC, PDF] for the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA elements) and model organism ENCODE (modENCODE) Projects, which are designed to identify all functional elements in the genomes of human (ENCODE), and Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans (modENCODE). NHGRI has designated both ENCODE and modENCODE as "community resource projects." Accordingly, the data release plan is based on the principles set forth in the Fort Lauderdale agreement [PDF]. This update provides more specificity to the data release guidelines. The Fort Lauderdale agreement noted that the success and utility ...
Source: WormBase - September 18, 2008 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: external announcements Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS193Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS193 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - August 21, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

2008 Neuro Meeting Survey now availableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A brief survey concerning the 2008 C. elegans neurobiology topics meeting is now available.
Source: WormBase - August 11, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

2009 International C. elegans Meeting Logo ContestEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Interested in participating in a contest to create the logo for the 2009 C. elegans meeting? See this post on the Worm Community Forum for details.
Source: WormBase - July 24, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

2008 European Worm Meeting SurveyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Please complete a short survey concerning the 2008 European Worm Meeting.
Source: WormBase - July 24, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

17th International C. elegans meeting datesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The 17th International C. elegans Meeting will be held June 24-28, 2009 at UCLA. Details to follow.
Source: WormBase - July 23, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS192Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS192 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - July 19, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS191Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS191 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - June 17, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New genomes and nGASP predictions now availableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New genome browsers for C. brenneri and C. japonica and updated browsers for C. briggsae, C. remanei, and B. malayi are now available. Top-scoring algorithms from nGASP -- the nematode genome annotation assessment competition -- were used to generate preliminary gene sets for each of these genomes.
Source: WormBase - May 27, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: new datasets Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS190Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS190 release of the database. WS190 will be the tenth frozen release of WormBase, and will be made permanently available at ws190.wormbase.org in the coming weeks.
Source: WormBase - May 27, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS189Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS189 release of the database. This release includes a new Ontology Search and numerous enhancements to the Genome Browser.
Source: WormBase - April 22, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

modENCODE position at OICR in TorontoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Stein Lab at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research is recruiting a software engineer and a data curator in support of the modENCODE Data Coordinating Center. The ideal candidate for the developer position will be Bachelors or Masters-level biologist or computer scientist with significant experience in biological databases and production-quality software development. The data curator should have a Masters degree or Phd in a the life sciences, experience with high volume functional genomics data, common bioinformatics tools, and some programming. A background in C. elegans or D. melanogaster biology or genetics...
Source: WormBase - April 21, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: positions available Source Type: info

C. japonica assembly now availableEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The final assembly of C. japonica is now available from the Genome Sequencing Center (WUSTL) website. BLAST searching of the assembly is also available.
Source: WormBase - March 25, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: external announcements Source Type: info

Cold Spring Harbor positions with the iPlant Cyberinfrastructure projectEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cold Spring Harbor is seeking applicants for the positions of Scientific Informatics Analyst, Scientific Informatics Developer and Web Applications Developer to work on the iPlant cyberinfrastructure project.
Source: WormBase - March 24, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: positions available Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS188Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS188 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - March 22, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

2008 Topics Meeting: Aging, Stress, Pathogenesis, and HeterochronyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The website for the 2008 Topics Meeting in Aging, Stress, Pathogenesis, and Heterochrony is now available. The meeting will be held August 3-6 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The deadline to receive abstracts is Monday June 2, and the registration deadline is June 23rd.
Source: WormBase - March 19, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

2008 Topics Meeting: NeuroscienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The website for the 2008 Topics Meeting in Neuroscience is now available. The meeting will be held June 29th-July 2nd at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Registration is now available and due April 28th, 2008.
Source: WormBase - March 12, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

2008 Topics Meeting: Worm Genomics and Systems BiologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The website for the 2008 Topics Meeting in Worm Genomics and Systems Biology is now available. The meeting will be held July 24-25, 2008 at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA. The abstract and registration deadlines are April 1st and April 23rd, respectively.
Source: WormBase - March 12, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS187Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS187 release of the database [Release notes | raw files via FTP].
Source: WormBase - February 16, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New release scheduleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Effective immediately, WormBase will be moving to a monthly release schedule. New releases of the database occur on the final Friday of the month, will be available on the development site a week later, and on www.wormbase.org two weeks thereafter. A preliminary document showing dates of upcoming WormBase releases is available on the WormBase Wiki.
Source: WormBase - February 6, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS186Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS186 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - February 6, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

WormBook chapters now indexed in PubMedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The WormBook team is pleased to announce that chapters are now indexed in PubMed. See, for example, the PubMed entry for "The sensory cilia of Caenorhabditis elegans". Abstracts are linked directly to the full text at WormBook.
Source: WormBase - January 10, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: wormbook Source Type: info

2008 Development Meeting websiteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The website for the 2008 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is now available. The meeting will be held June 26-29, 2008.
Source: WormBase - January 8, 2008 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS185Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS185 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - December 24, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

New interface for the Textpresso literature searchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Textpresso -- the software that powers the WormBase Literature Search -- has a new user interface. Available directly from the WormBase home page (select the "Literature" option), Textpresso searches individual sentences in the full text of 9461 papers and 24,526 abstracts.
Source: WormBase - December 9, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS184Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS184 release of the database (release notes, WS184 virtual machine).
Source: WormBase - December 2, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

C. elegans genomics and systems biology meeting July 24-25Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new topics meeting (C. elegans genomics and systems biology) for 2008 has been announced. Please see this post on the Worm Community Forum for details.
Source: WormBase - November 21, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: meetings Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS183Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS183 release of the database.
Source: WormBase - November 13, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

Transcription Factor Genes for modENCODEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The modENCODE Data Coordinating Center seeks input from the C. elegans and Drosophila research communities on which transcription factors to select for analysis in modENCODE projects. Availability of suitable antibodies as well as community priorities are important factors in deciding which transcription factors will be mapped first. Please visit the modENCODE web site for more information.
Source: WormBase - October 25, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: external announcements Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS182Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS182 release of the database. The WormBase virtual machine and related databases for this release are available on the WormBase FTP site.
Source: WormBase - October 21, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

Mailing list for local installation of WormBaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Interested in installing WormBase locally? Are you running a mirror site? Please sign up for the new WormBase-Install mailing list. This exceedingly low-traffic list will keep you up-to-date with what you need to know to run WormBase on your own computer.
Source: WormBase - October 4, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: general news Source Type: info

New release of WormBase: WS181Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WormBase has been updated to the WS181 release of the database. The WS181 virtual machine will be available Monday morning on the WormBase FTP site.
Source: WormBase - September 30, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: release notes Source Type: info

WormBase maintenance: September 21st-22ndEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Due to scheduled maintenance, elements of WormBase will be unavailable for short periods this weekend. WormBase will be unavailable starting Saturday Sept 22 at 7AM GMT-4. The service interruption could last several hours. In preparation, the WormBase Wiki and Worm Community Forums will be unavailable from Friday evening at 9PM GMT-4. Will apologize for any inconvenience this interruption may cause.
Source: WormBase - September 21, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: service status Source Type: info

Transcription Factor Genes for modENCODEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The modENCODE Data Coordinating Center seeks input from the C. elegans and Drosophila research communities on which transcription factors to select for analysis in modENCODE projects. Availability of suitable antibodies as well as community priorities are important factors in deciding which transcription factors will be mapped first. Please visit the modENCODE web site for more information.
Source: WormBase - September 20, 2007 Category: Stem Cells Tags: external announcements Source Type: info